The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-19
BRIC-A-BRAC.
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Out yer money, and payin'
For willer cage and bird,
When the medder. larks Is wingin'
Round you, and thewoods a-ringin'
With the beautifulest singin'
That mortal ever heard!
Sahry's sot tho'-so tell her
Hes purity little feller,
With his wings O creamy yellcr
Aud eyes keen as cat;
And the twitter of the creature
Seems to absolutely glitter!
Guess I'll have to go and git her
A better cage'n that.
The iron age-Bondage.
The golden age-Coinage.
Light infantry-Torch-bea bearers.
The cash system is no-bill art.
The corset has come to stay
It only takes about two seconds to get up
a duel.
AS rule, the best hats do not cover the
best brains.
Proverb for the year-Faint heart never
helped fair lady.
A young lady who visited Niagara com
planned of a in her eye.
Burglarious ditty-Oft In the stealy
night
Lawn tennis is q popular game but it is
played out, all the same,
The diver is man who always does
business at bottom prices.
There are few things in this world more
rasping than file of unpaid bills.
A duel is the quickest kind of an encoun.
ter, because it only takes two seconds.
a tca-totallcr-Thc tea merchants ac-
countant.
A Kentucky duck has three feet, all
fully developed. A Chicago duck has two
feet, awfu]ly developed.
Man has two wills. One he is born with,
and the other he makes to take effect when
he dies.
When a young woman attends her first
ball she thinks she has found woman's
sphere.
A man may successfully paint the town
red, but when afterward he has brush
with u policeman he loses color.
"Is your husband an Odd Fellow"
"Wcll, [ should imagine he is; never saw
such strange man in my life."
1t is stated that our army of about 25, 900
costs yearly but half a million less than the
German army of 10000.
What a beautiful thing, my dear, Is
rosy check" Eyes, husband; but how great
the contrast when the blush settles on the
nose.
Care will kill cat The care must be
exercised in taking aim. 1t is extremely
difficult, however, to hit one in, the dark
with bottle.
Bank managers should make good re-
portcrs; they are always taking notes. And
then, again, they always take an interest in
the business.
a contemporary remarks that a wise man
will never mock his mothcr-in-law more
than once. Shouldn't think wise man
would do it once.
A four-ycar, old child, visiting, saw bel
lows used to blow an open fire, and in
formed her mother that "they shovel wind
into the fire at Aunt Augusta's."
Holland has 10000 windmils. During
a Presidential campaign America can sec
Holland and go her about so, 900 windmills
better.
The invention Of the drum is ascribed by
the Greeks to the god Bacchus Whence,
undoubtedly, arose the expression, Tight
as drum"
1T is really very odd, my dear" said an
old lady, one very cold day to a friend, 81
can't bear the heat in summer and in win
ter love it,"
"a young wifcs greatest trial" is probably
to find out whether it would be proper to
starch her husbands shirt all over or, only
the bosom and cuffs.
Mamma" said little up town boy, as
he left his bed and crawlcd into hers, the
other night, " l can sleep in your bed, |
know i can; but I've slept my bed all up"
When man and his wife engaged in
debate, the other night and the dog got np
and scratched to be let out of the room,
they concluded it was time to stop the dis
cusSiOn.
a cat has been discovered in France with
an eye like that of the Cyclops. 1t seems
to us that if any change is to be made in
cats it should be made in their voices and
not their eyes.
AT recent ball q new figure was intro.
duced, which caused quite sensation. 1t
was the figure of an irate parent who took
his son by the car and waltZed him ont of
the ballroom in quickstep movement.
We think if Shakespeare had lived in
Vermont he would never have written,
"Whot a fall was there, my countrymen?"
lie would have put it, what a winter was
there, my countrymcn!"
"Ta, ia; I'll see you later" said Amy,
taking leave of the high-school girl, the
other evening. "GOu mcan," replied the
latter, you will ocularly observe me at a
subsequent period, do you not?'
IIorsc-radish yields from two to four tons
per acre and sells from five to ten cents
pound. The worst drawback to its culture
is the difficulty of cradicating it when it
gets firm hold on the land
''If it be true that the hairs of ones head
arc all numbered" said the man after he
had escaped from his wifc's clutches,
''therc will be one angel, at least, who will
show up with big deficit"
\ prima donna sang "1Iomc, Sweet
Home" to the conyicts in Western prison,
and it 50 worked upon their feelings that
seven Of them escaped and struck out for
the parental roOftrec the same night
A near-sightcd man in street car, see
ing woman holding pug-dog on her lap,
asked if she had left her other children at
home. And she got mad and called him a
brute.
"Do you think eating angel cake will
make an angel Of mc?" asked a scramble
young lady Of the worldly young man,
"IVc no doubt it will" he answered, "if
YOU only eat enough of II " Thon che o;o